Where Democratic proposals drive decision making through Washington, Republican health care proposals would put women firmly in the driver’s seat, ensuring that their market power forces reform.

She describes mothers as the nation’s primary health care decision makers and most knowledgeable consumers. That places them in opposition to greater government involvement in the health care system, she says.

Women who are often simultaneously caring for young children and elderly parents are simply unwilling to surrender that control to public option bureaucrats in Washington who they don’t believe are attuned to their needs. They are right to resist.